At the café, phone zombies ignored the conversation, their attention fixed on glowing screens.

The park was full of smartphone zombies, heads bent and eyes fixed on glowing screens.

Many economies struggle when zombie banks continue to extend loans despite being insolvent.

When the economy worsened, the once-proud regional lender became little more than a zombie bank, surviving only because the government refused to let it collapse.

When the underground zine published a satirical cover featuring Zombie Jesus, readers erupted in outrage and the editors issued an apology.

On the busy server, zombie processes accumulated until the system administrator restarted the service.

After the child exited, a zombie process remained in the process table until the parent called wait().

After the long meeting, I found myself zombying out and missing the final decisions.

By noon the zombied out intern could barely keep her eyes open during the meeting.

By midafternoon I was completely zombied-out, moving through the day in a sluggish, vacant haze.